If you happened to catch Mariah Carey’s “epic fail” performance on the ABC Channel this past New Year’s Eve, you’ve seen first-hand that equipment failure during a live performance can be disastrous. Equipment issues also created challenges for Lady Gaga and...

In Part 1 of this blog post, I explained why it’s important to operationally test your disaster recovery (DR) plan, and why a tabletop session is insufficient. In this post, I’d like to talk about what an operational recovery exercise might look like. Any exercise...

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in January 2016 and has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. Yesterday I started hearing some unfortunate noises from the little external hard drive that I use for local backups of my laptop. These “last...

A big part of recovery planning is identifying and mitigating single points of failure (SPOFs). SPOFs are the bane of disaster recovery and high availability for IT and the business as a whole. And it’s no trivial matter to determine where SPOFs lurk, what risks they...

One of our ISO 27001 clients in the legal vertical recently asked Pivot Point Security to perform a gap assessment of their Incident Response Plan. They were a little surprised when we asked for their most recent risk assessment and Business Continuity Plan. I often...